Please Fix Slaughter

[Beckett]

Slaughter in its current state is still a broken mess. There are several issues, but two major ones stick out.

Cometeor is still far too overpowered. Even after the nerf, a group of casters can still dominate any Slaughter round by stacking their cometeors. When 6 cometeors go off at the same time, anyone in the spread is dead and there is zero defense against it. Any easy fix would be to put a buff up on any player that is hit with a limit break that grants a 5 second immunity to additional limit break damage.

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[Beckett]

The second issue is that whenever two grand companies decide to teamup against the third company, there is nothing the third company can do to fight back. In a Secure match, if two GCs gang up on one, it becomes very difficult for the third GC, but with sound strategy they can still counter attack. For example, if Adder and Maelstrom are both fighting at the Flame Outpost, the Immortal Flames can try to sneak by and capture the undefended Serpent and Storm Outposts. In Slaughter, the best strategy that a teamed-up on grand company can employ is to hope that by the time they respawn the other two companies will be fighting each other. I understand that this issue is harder to fix. One solution could be to add more objectives out of the middle of the map, for example a second spawn for the drones at Markets, Temple and Manor. If two GC's gang up on the third, the third should be able to fall back and take a different objective, rather than having to just accept their inevitable loss.

[HulveinBlitz]

Adding more monsters won't do jack.

They learnt, but very slowly. They didn't make a NEW MAP for slaughter. Thats the problem. The current map is OK for Secure, but for slaughter.. its terribly designed. You can only hope in 3.0, the map fits the mode.

The map should make teams play tactically, not some faking node that gives you a buff. Buffs should be left for assists/kills.

[KarmaBum]

In Slaughter, the best strategy that a teamed-up on grand company can employ is to hope that by the time they respawn the other two companies will be fighting each other.

This is my biggest problem with Slaughter. Especially in 8v8v8, there is nothing you can do if you get double-teamed.

[Red_Wolf]

When 6 cometeors go off at the same time, anyone in the spread is dead and there is zero defense against it. Any easy fix would be...

An even easier fix is to spread out. If you backpedal to the ramp then you die. Cometeors are meant to kill clusters of people.

[Xenosan]

Both events are arguably avoidable.

Cometeor: If you let 5 or 6 casters of an opposing faction build up to battle high/fever, you deserve to get wiped. They earned those lb kills.

Double Teamed: from my experience 3 times out of 5, a team gets doubletapped because they positioned poorly, looking like easy kills for both the other GCs.

Whether you're getting doubleteamed or not, whenever you take direct damage, break range.. make them work hard for the kill.. They'll give up n switch to a different target if you make them work for it.

[Iagainsti]

Both events are arguably avoidable.

Cometeor: If you let 5 or 6 casters of an opposing faction build up to battle high/fever, you deserve to get wiped. They earned those lb kills.

Double Teamed: from my experience 3 times out of 5, a team gets doubletapped because they positioned poorly, looking like easy kills for both the other GCs.

Whether you're getting doubleteamed or not, whenever you take direct damage, break range.. make them work hard for the kill.. They'll give up n switch to a different target if you make them work for it.

Best answer by far. WHINER tHREAD ALERT anyway though.

[Niroken]

Double Teamed: from my experience 3 times out of 5, a team gets doubletapped because they positioned poorly, looking like easy kills for both the other GCs.

There is no avoiding getting double teamed with three factions when participating in battle. If two factions are fighting with each other the third faction has to pick one, if the third faction divides up then the other two faction will focus on them as they have the numbers advantage (higher success rate), thus being teamed by the other two factions. The only way a faction can avoid getting double teamed is if they remove themselves entirely from battle making the other two factions fight each other, in which case generally the faction that retreats loses due to lack of points.

[RobinRethiel]

Oh, please. Slaughter should not have a 1vs1vs1 anyway. It's pointless and makes win trading so easy, especially since guilds can just work together with no prob. Win trade is one thing when 1vs1, both agreed to it. If a guild joins on two sides and just helps each other out against the third, that's a different thing.

There should be no premades anyway or separated from the randoms.

@ Cometeors:
You don't need a single kill to start - you will get them with the first wave. Also it's VERY easy to avoid dying as a RDPS. Just stay with your group. You can fall back, if some are insane enough to follow into your third of the arena, they will get slaughtered there. So stop crying about it. Cometeor is stupid, especially combined with mass sleep/freeze and the lag many people got.

I got zero lag and still there are cometeors you can't dodge, because the other guy (and there are ways to provoke this) got such lag, that the server gets problems with sending the AoE marker to you.

[Sen_Terrechant]

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rofl you honestly think there is win trading going on in Slaughter?

I swear some peoples delusions go deep.